Pulitzer slight

[Tom Beshear]

This gives a pretty good rundown, including the names of the three fiction 
jurors. These days the jury recommends three books, but not a winner among 
them. The Pulitzer board decides that, and this year, a majority didn't like 
any of the three:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/04/17/pulitzer-board-awards-no-fiction-prize-angering-jurors.html

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bekah" <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Henry M" <scuffling at gmail.com>
Cc: "Pynchon Liste" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2012 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: Pulitzer slight


It really is rather disgusting -  I mean who decided those should be the 
finalists?   :-P

Bek
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com/

On Apr 17, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Henry M wrote:

> I tell ya, it's a slap in the face to novelists and to readers of novels, 
> alike, is what it is.
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
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> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:48 AM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I guess I somehow find it irresponsible--irrational, I know-----not to 
> pick a winner.
> By definition, one novel is the best every year,in some way of judging. 
> They should risk a choice.
>
> And some of their choices have been so bad, they could not choose 
> worse.....
>
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> From: Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: kelber at mindspring.com
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 11:02 PM
> Subject: Re: Pulitzer slight
>
> On Apr 16, 2012, at 4:19 PM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Once again, no Pulitzer Prize for fiction:
> >
> > http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/04/16/pulitzer-prize-no-fiction-award/
>
>
> Apparently the 3 judges (Susan Larson, Maureen Corrigan and Michael 
> Cunningham) couldn't come to an agreement - 2 out of the 3 have to agree.
>
> The finalists,  according to 
> http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-Fiction  were :
>
> "Train Dreams," by Denis Johnson  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), a novella 
> about a day laborer in the old American West, bearing witness to terrors 
> and glories with compassionate, heartbreaking calm;
>
> "Swamplandia!" by Karen Russell (Alfred A. Knopf), an adventure tale about 
> an eccentric family adrift in its failing alligator-wrestling theme park, 
> told by a 13-year-old heroine wise beyond her years;
>
> and
>
> "The Pale King," by the late David Foster Wallace(Little, Brown and 
> Company), a posthumously completed novel, animated by grand ambition, that 
> explores boredom and bureaucracy in the American workplace.
>
>
> Personally,  I didn't think Swamplandia was worthy of a Pulitzer -  I 
> doubt I could have brought myself to award anything to a book not 
> completed by its author and I don't know anything about Train Dreams. 
> Maybe it was just not a great year for novels.
>
> Bek
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